[dev1033] Ideas for a Two-Tier Class System: Jobs on Top of Weapon Specializations

[northernsky]

Yeah I'm realizing that, so choosing traits upon reaching the next tier of title. Now should it be a spec tree type of deal? Or should it be an NPC trainer of sorts? Ahhh even better, doing a quest to reach the next tier then choosing the title bonuses upon completion. I think abilities should be constant though and passive traits and "minor" abilities be chosen. Leaving the major abilities constant gives you the title jobs' flavor but still allows you to customize minor abilities to accomendate your play style. Let's say I reach journeyman drk and I will no matter what geet souleater, but do I choose an attack bonus, a stun type ability, or a boost to hp.

The way to fix class uniqueness is to get rid of interchangable skills. Only make interchangable skills part of the title and even then only certain spells/abilities could be selected. Drk shouldn't have cure, but if you leveled thau you would have drain and be to take that drain no matter what sub class you had equipped.

I like that a lot. I think that the talent tree proposed in another thread would be a great way to implement the title system. Personally, I would prefer to have the possibility to change the path I chose at any time.

Now, to make sure that you cannot obtain all the abilities from this tree and destroy customization, you could split it into several levels that you unlock when you advance to a further tier, i-e Journeyman in your example. For each level of the tree, you can only obtain enough points to unlock, say, 50% of the abilities/traits. Ideally you could decide to cancel an ability and reallocate the associated points to another ability.

Upon reaching the journeyman status, you have access to a new level of skills/abilities chart to choose from, and you automatically gain "souleater" as the starting point in this new category. Starting from here you decide in which direction of the chart you wish to spend the points that you have earned for that tier.